if they are underinflated, at whose direction. we will hear from brady about that. >> i want to bring in christine brennan, "usa today" sports columnist. she joins us by phone. we saw some serious punishments during the scandal with the new orleans saints and, you know the hit lists. do you think tom brady could be even suspended if it's revealed he had anything to do with this and if not, do you think he should be? >> jake it's a great question. i don't think he will be suspended for the super bowl. i think that's of course something on everyone's mind. i think he will play in the super bowl no matter what. but i could see a fine i could even see suspension starting next year. i could see that. i think it depends on what we hear from him and you know as you are preparing for this press conference this has become one of the most important press conferences certainly this year and there have been a lot this year including roger goodell, the ray rice incident. this has exploded as we have watched and covered it the last few days. th

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here's the other thing. 11 of the 12 footballs they had were underinflated.12th football was a nurf. come on, neil. >> you don't know that. >> but the point is though, it still smells rotten in denmark. >> one of the greatest players of all-time, he would know. this is something you and i can relate to. like i know right now, the camera is just one inch off. >> you know. how many times have you told the men, listen light number eight is them. >> absolutely. >> is this getting way out of hand? >> it's getting way out of hand. >> would this question their win? >> no. >> they won in a -- did this change anything? or to your point, does this go back some time and that we're missing something? >> the bottom line is it didn't change the outcome. they destroyed their opponent but it might point to an attitude of win at all costs even if you can destroy your opponent, if there's a way to get the edge get the edge. that sort of goes to the team philosophy under bill belichick. although, again, mostly within the rule books they've had a few things where people have que

but this is a ball -- every one of these balls, they're underinflated. what happens after every single play? the referee picks up the ball. the side judge picks up the ball. at any point, if this was so glaring and it was so egregious that anybody could notice the difference between a regulation ball and a slightly underinflated ball the referee could stop -- to me this puts it in a different realm. this puts it in the realm of holding is against the rules of football. on every play every player intentionally holds with an intent to get away with it to increase their kpet conclusive advantage. what do you say to a wide receiver who traps the ball? it hits the ground he tries to fool everybody into thinking he caught it. i put this more in the realm of that. gamesmanship. it is around the edges, but it's gamesmanship. >> mark, how do you respond to that? also to steve's argument that lots of quarterbacks do this this is relatively common. >> well i mean it's not gamesmanship. gamesmanship when you're trying to fool a referee to catch a football or holding

this as it's reported they may have used the underinflated footballs against the colts. the league says it found 11 of the 12 footballs that the team used were not at the inflation level they should have been. bill belichick who at times sounded like a physics professor talking about atmospherics and what he was a football obtaining equilibrium. he denied any wrongdoing on behalf of the team. >> at no time was there any intent whatsoever to try to compromise the integrity of the game or to gain an advantage. quite the opposite. we feel like we followed the rules of the game to the letter in our preparations, in our procedures, and in the way that we handled every game that we competitively played in. >> one thing he didn't do during that news conference was punt. bryan llenas, he did describe some type of football experiment that they conducted? >> reporter: that's right. on that impromptu press conference, it was a fed up but adamant and confident new england patriots coach bill belichick. he said the team conducted an internal study simulating how they prepare football

how could you not know the balls were underinflated.i don't put any thought into the footballs after i choose them. when you're out there playing in front of 70,000 people in the home crowd, you don't think about it. you're just reacting to the game. i certainly don't think about the football. i assume it's the same one ai approved in the pregame. we break them in in practice certainly sometimes. yeah, we definitely do. . sometimes it feels good. the next day it did not. it depends on how, i don't know the humidity in the air, and i think there's a lot of variables. you know, whatever feel ls good that day. >> you're not looking at it in practice. >> yeah, he does that a lot. it could be. definitely could be. >> you have better numbers. >> carefully. look at these balls before each game and pick the winners? >> yeap. >> you said earlier you didn't want them to be touched. you didn't notice 50% of air was out of the the ball when you started using it? that's hard to believe. at no point did it strike you? >> yeah ron. i didn't feel any d

all we know is several footballs were found to be underinflated. >> so eric, brady said the footballs didn't feel different to him. as a former ball boy, you said if the ball was deflated, you would have noticed it, correct? >> well, it's really hard to say. as a ball boy, you spend a lot of times with the footballs and the quarterbacks do too. you prepare the balls with the quarterback for the week leading up to the game and the quarterbacks are particular about the way that the footballs feel in their hand, and a change in pressure can be e detectable if you really are feeling for the pressure. >> so you're saying a quarterback would know the difference? >> if he's looking for it, but i do have to say in the heat of the game with everything going on, i can totally believe that brady might not notice a drop in pressure in between quarters or plays. >> eric, who actually, from the time the balls are checked by the refs, where are they? >> the ball boys bring them to the referees at that point. they're inspected. after that in my experience, we would bring them out straight to the fiel

patriots coach holds a surprise news conference about the footballs and how he thinks they ended up underinflated in that big game. >>> winter blast. snow slick roads and canceled flights as a storm barrels up the east coast and another is on the way. >>> hostage killed. isis militants behead another hostage. and tonight the terror group is out with new demands. >>> they're off, the stars of the gop begin their race to the white house. and another familiar face could be in the running. >>> and one for the road as a new generation takes a shine to an american classic. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. after further review there is a scientific explanation for those underinflated footballs the new england patriots used in last week's playoff victory over indianapolis. coach bill belichick who after claiming to know nothing about the controversy during a thursday news conference unexpectedly went before the cameras again this afternoon, this time with a lot to say about what the team discovered in its own tests and how tho

controversy head on for the first time since the controversy erupted over whether the patriots used underinflated footballs in sunday's blowout win. >> when i came in monday morning, i was shocked to learn of the news reports about the footballs. i had no knowledge whatsoever of this situation until monday morning. i would say i've learned a lot more about this process in the last three days than i knew or had talked about in the last 40 years. i coached in this league. i had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that went through -- that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game and i can tell you that in my entire coaching career i have never talked to any player staff member about football air pressure. the national football league is investigating this situation. we have cooperated fully, quickly and completely with every request that they have made, continue to be cooperate in any way that we can. i have no explanation for what happened, and that's what they are looking into. >> we also learned in the past h

it's not the underinflation of the football.hen you look at it what brady wanted to do changing the rule was saying hey, as quarterbacks we should have the ability to have the footballs, pick the ones we want to use and use our own footballs. not to say hey, why do we have to all use the same football. i think the thing that he was trying to lobby is that each quarterback would be able to pick the footballs and then those footballs would be decided which are used on game day. >> but mike it has to be a big deal because if it weren't a big deal there would be no standard and we'd let each team go out and play at whatever inflation rate they choose to. >> listen. i was part of that petition that was sent in by the quarterbacks and you're talking about not just tom brady but peyton manning and all of those that sent in the petition to the competition committee to use their own footballs. we got it. the committee got it and understood and thought that it was a fair thing to do to let the quarterbacks -- listen when i was on the fiel

patriots did use illegal footballs in their blow-out victory this weekend. 11 of the 12 balls were underinflated. what does this mean with the super bowl fast approaching? >> i have no more campaigns to run. i know because i won both of them. >> following president obama on the attack defending his

. >>> plus new details on how the new england patriots used underinflated footballs and why the mayor of paris says she's going to sue fox news. >>> but we begin today's "eye opener" with your world in 90 seconds. >> a stock market that has doubled and inflation that is at its lowest rate in 50 years. >> he focused on helping the middle class with new tax proposals. >> he just doubled down on the same failed policies the last six years. >> the president said some things but he did it all in kind of ad goo humor. >> i have no more campaigns to run. i know because i won both of them. >> a terror attack in israel. a palestinian man stabbed and injured nine passengers on a busin tel aviv. >> rebel forces took over the presidential palace. >> the u.s. military taking action to be ready. >> the nfl found 11 of 12 footballs were underinflated, done. >> sndindeyla confirmed the recent outbreak of measles includes five park employees. >> my na na told me to bring a lot of purell. >> they were told to bulldoze stheteps. >>> a tourist the top got a selfie with rocky himself. how cool is that. >>

some experts say there is advantages to play with underinflated footballs because they are easier to grip. but they say they would have won the game regardless. >> we don't know, we are on to seattle. >> the patriots will play in the super bowl but because it's not the first time they are accused of playing with deflated footballs, some feel the real consequences will be to their reputation. >> what this does is complicate the legacy. >> reporter: and next sunday the game balls will be held by an impartial equipment manager, a super bowl policy in place long before this scandal. marcy gonzales channel 6 "action news." >> marcy thank you. world news tonight with david muir will have much more on deflate-gate and more on the new jersey apartment fire, watch that after "action news" at 6:00. >>> police divers pulled a body from a car at the bottom of a lake today. they used a chainsaw to break through the ice and they used special suits to get the victim. investigators have not released details about the person's identity or what led them to search the lake in the first place. >>> forme

new england patriots used underinflated footballs and why the mayor of paris says she's going to sue fox news. >>> but we begin today's "eye opener" with your world in 90 seconds. >> a stock market that has doubled and inflation that is at its lowest rate in 50 years. >> he focused on helping the

and did he say, bram i never told them to you know i like the underinflated ball ss or to underinflate well, that is the question that was not asked today. did you not instruct or to do something illegal here but have you told them the specifications that you like and that not necessarily the go below what sis the nfl standard to get the team in trouble but maybe someone took it the wrong way or someone maybe made a mistake and underinflated them to the point that got them in trouble. and we have to mention this, too, you are playing the colts erlarlier in the year, and the colts were aware that this could be an issue, and it became an issue later because they thought it might be. so, therefore, it would suggest that this is the type of the ball that he likes the play with and in most case ss, it is probably right on the line of being legal, and in this particular case, it probably wouzn't, but i won't go far enough to say that tom brady did it. i can't leap to that conclusion that he did that. >> and to the best television that you are saying is that you cannot see pete's expression w

meanwhile, jerry rice tweeted "11 of 12 balls underinflated? can anyone spell cheating?ng." now, the nfl may also want to speak with the baltimore ravens about deflategate. according to cbs sports some of the ravens believe the kicking balls used in their playoff game at new england were also slightly underinflated. >> what? >> now, that game was close. the patriots won 35-31. and guys if it wasn't for that second-quarter interception by d'qwell jackson in the colts/patriots game we might not even have deflategate, because he's the one who went to the sideline and said -- you know he's a linebacker. he caught the ball and even he knew this doesn't feel right. my question is where are the officials? they're handling the balls every down different balls for the colts and patriots and couldn't tell there was a difference in the ones the patriots were using. >> i appreciate you trying to shift some of the blame there, andy to make it easier for me to suggest that the refs were somehow incomplicit. if the patriots took air out of the balls, it is shameful. it just is. it's sh

>> reporter: the advantage of playing with an underinflated ball? it's easier to grip and catch, especially in foul weather. espn's sports science found a typical nfl player can apply roughly 1.5% more force to an underinflated ball. the accusations setting off a firestorm. many calling the patriots cheaters and raising questions about their championship record. >> it'll mean more to the legacy of what the patriots are trying to do than the actual infraction. that's what's too bad. >> reporter: patriots quarterback tom brady brushing it off on boston's sports radio show "dennis and callahan." >> i think i've heard it all at this point and it's ridiculous. >> reporter: the patriots have been caught in integrity scandals before. in 2007, the nfl fined bill belichick 500 grand and took draft picks from the team for videotaping an opponent's sideline signals during a game. but now, as scandal swirls around the super bowl the stakes couldn't be higher. >> because they are the dominant team of this era, certainly there are people who believe it does taint

like the deflated ball. >> former 49er jerry rice tweeted about the controversy. 11 of 12 balls underinflatedting"? >> reporter: so-called deflategate heating up. nfl sources telling espn in sunday's game that has the new england patriots super bowl-bound, 11 of the team's 12 game balls were underinflated by two pounds per square inch. >> the softer football is easier to handle and perhaps would lead to increased offensive efficiency for patriots. >> reporter: while on offense each team uses their own footballs, which are allowed to are dbed slightly. then i they have to be inspected and approved by a ref before the game. after that, in alterations allowed. late in second quarter of sunday's afc championship game the indianapolis colts reportedly grew suspicious. >> intercepted! >> reporter: following this interception colts linebacker d'qwell jackson gave the ball to a member of his team's equipment staff. soon after, the ref switched out the ball and the patriots went on to win 45-7. >> we don't know who deflated the balls. if it was the patriots belichick obviously looks for every angle. >

11 of the 12 balls were underinflated. what does this mean with the super bowl fast approaching? >>> i have no more campaigns to run. i know because i won both of them. >> the fiery president obama on the attack defending his presidency claiming credit for the fast-moving economy, vowing to fight the republican majority in congress.

espn says 11 of 12 footballs used in the championship blowout were underinflated. if they have less air in them balls are easier to grip throw and catch especially in the rain. the nfl requires each team provide 12 footballs for their own offenses. rules state that each ball must be inflated between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch but according to espn's report 11 balls tested were underinflated by about two pounds per square inch. remember both bill belichick and the patriots were find for the 2007 spygate spannedal for videotaping an opponent's defensive signals. the nfl told nbc news said it wouldn't comment on the espn report. the patriots indicated to nbc news they will continue to cooperate fully. >>> this morning the race to find two japanese hostages threatened in a new isis video. a key u.s. ally could be on the brink of a queue. nbc's chief foreign xent richard engel has the poor. >> reporter: the group's beheader threatens to kill two japanese hostages unless japan pays $2 million, the same amount japan has committed to fighting the group. japan say

both times there were concerns able the footballs feeling underinflated.ources said the colts raised concerned with the nfl. the league was reportedly aware of the issue going into sunday's game, the afc championship game. they told nbc sports pro football talk the game balls were properly checked by officials before sunday's game. when the the balls left the possession of the referee, the air pressure was kreblgt. the it's not known when or how the footballs were deflated after they left the referee. another report brings up an nnl rule change from 2006. nbc sports pro football talk points out in 2006 brady and peyton manning successfully lobbied the league to let every team provide its own footballs to use on offense. travel with your own footballs and use them at the game. ft prior to that it was always the home team that supplied the footballs. every quarterback has preferences with their fooshls. aaron rodgers looks his football fully inflated. a "new york times" article reveals eli manning likes his footballs broken in. in a radio interview in 2011 b

over allegations that the team cheated its way into the super bowl by underinflating footballs. but with the constant coverage and breaking news isn't this story, well, overblown? >> can. >> you can answer right now, is tom brady a cheat sner. >> i don't believe so. i feel like i've always believed withins rules. >> those balls were deflated. somebody had to do it. >> why are the media treating the football plot like a full pledged scandal. >>> president obama takes on the bun pits for spreading cynicism and many push back over his state of the union. >> the pundits have pointed out more than once that my presidency hasn't delivered on this mission. >> and the president calling for compromise, then blasting republicans apvowing to block even bipartisan ideas. some of them anyway. >> like a ballplayer shooting from i don't understand thebeyond the three point

well, the nfl's investigation into charges that the new england patriots used underinflated footballs in the afc championship game could wrap up as early as today. the patriots' coach and quarterback deny any involvement. bill belichick and tom brady say they don't know why 11 of 12 patriots game balls used last sunday were underinflated. omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: the new england patriots used some familiar plays in the blame game over underinflated footballs. at his morning footballs, coach bill belichick handed off to tom brady. >> tom's personal preferences on his footballs are something that he can talk about in much better detail. >> i didn't alter the ball in any way. >> reporter: brady says he has no idea what happened to the game balls after he approved them before sunday's championship game. >> i don't want anyone touching the balls after that i don't want anyone rubbing them putting any air in them taking air out. to me the balls are perfect and that's what i expect when i show up on the field. >> reporter: so brady punted. >> i don't have an explanation for it.

. >>> then an espn report on the new england patriots and 11 underinflated balls. >>> a man is arrested for bulldozing the home he lived in with his wife. we'll give you details on that. thanks for joining us. president obama will travel to the midwest today, his first stop boise state university. there he'll promote some of the themes we heard during his state of the union address last night. his message was loud and clear, america is bouncing back. >> the shadow of crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. at every step we were told our goals were misguided or too ambitious, and we would crush jobs and explode deficits. instead we've seen the fastest economic growth in over a decade. our deficits cut by two-thirds a stock market that has dounld and health care inflation at its lowest rate in 50 years. this is good news people. >> president obama made history becoming the first president to say the words "lesbian buy sexual and transgender" in a state of the union address. during his hour-long speech, president obama also added some humor. >> i have no more campaigns to r

did the patriots have an edge from underinflated balls? the nfl is back with new results. >>> demolition man. a wife makes a shocking discovery when arriving home. the house reduced to rubble. the husband now under arrest. >>> plus memorable moments, the lighter side of the state of the union including the buzz surrounding michelle obama's suit and who wore the camouflage high heels? >>> and we say good wednesday morning. i'm kendis gibson in for t.j. holmes. >> i'm reena ninan. we begin with the overnight reaction to the state of the union address in which president obama steamed to turn his famous slogan yes we can into a new one. >> it went off script. >> susan saulny with details. >> reporter: good morning. in this speech we saw an optimistic president trying hard to secure his legacy. >> the shadow of crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. >> reporter: president obama unveiled an ambitious state of the union agenda for his final two years in office emboldened by rising job approval ratings and improving economy. >> si

he couldn't give a specific reason of why the balls were underinflated. but during the process the ball's pressure seems to change. he explained how the study shoes that the variances and atmospheric pressure can change a ball and how texturized balls can alter pressure. and the pig skin that the ball is made of can make a difference. >> there is a the lot of variables that i was unaware of. it sounds simple and i am not trying to say this and land a guy on the moon but there is a lot of things here. >> in order to get the ball to the proper texture. we don't polish in fine china here. we are trying to get the football to the proper texture that the quarterback wants it to grip. >> the twitter reaction pokes fun. some calling it bill ni, the science guy and the atmospheric explanation are not good. do the law of physics cease to exist with the colts ball? jim gray said he believes bill belichick and said it is a scandal because while the patriots are a successful franchise and have a history of the spyigate controversy and they were caught taping the oppo

underinflated?sible. >> disney said three employees infected with measles have recovered and are back at work. several dozen have the virus after visiting the parks in anaheim. they were exposed between december 17 to the 20th and the visitors said even knowing about the outbreak would not stop them from going. >> not too worried but i would have like to have none about it. >> i would be worried but he is immunized each year so i don't have to stress about that. you would hope the people that do have measles would not come out in public. >> all park employees have been given tests and offered vaccination. disney is the parent company of abc7. >>> frightening stabbing on a city bus if tel aviv overnight. >> israeli police say a palestinian man stabbed nine passengers in a central part of the capital city. authorities say the suspect was on the bus and he pulled a knife and stabbed the driver and several other riders. police officers saw the suspect jump off the moving bus and shot him in the leg and

players, find underinflated in footballs to -- today he offered science. blaming it -- blaming it on the weather. they kim plated the conditions of last week's game. temperatures hovered around the 40s. >> we founs once the balls. footballs, were on the field. that they were ajusted to the conditions. they they were down approximatably 1 1/2 pounds per square inch. >> nbc news spoke with one physics producer who says the idea that a drop in interest can result in a drop in pressure is plausible. >> controversy brewing over an expensive victory. sean lynch. show talks fans. it is a no go at the super bowl. the nfl warned him the gesture will result in a 15 yard penalty for the film. already fined twice for doing that. watch super bowl right here next sunday on nbc bay area. 10:00 in the morning with a game show. game time for the super bowl its. >> coming up. google going up. the tick giant wants more people to connect to the internet. how they plan to use balloons to do it. and isis what they want now for releaseing a japanese hostage. ♪ ♪ ♪ turn around ♪

we're trying to determine how the balls got underinflated. the n.f.l.ot accused the patriots of anything yet. could have been improper protocol from officials, perhaps the cold weather played into it but the n.f.l. confirmed the patriots' footballs were underinflated. >> sreenivasan: even a 12-year-old is asks questions why didn't the rest feel the difference? the refs touch the ball between every play. >> that's a great question. i haven't been able to wrap my head around that one. i have been able to actually today we've taken a few footballs and given them various pressure. you can't always tell immediately if one ball is slightly less inflated than another and in the heat of the game with so much going on perhaps, you know the ball felt light enough for the official and they're not sitting there with a pressure gauge and taking the pressure of the football all the time, so i'm with you i don't quite understand how the officials weren't able to come up with this but it's true the colts first -- the ball boy on the sideline informed the coach who told

, 12 were underinflated, more than 2 psi under the limit. since then the nfl has been absolutely silent on the matter. now that the patriots coach bill belichick and quarterback tom brady said we don't know how this happened and we weren't involved in it they basically put their cards on the table, almost daring the nfl to prove that the patriots had something to do with deflating the balls. so at this point it is kind of a standoff as to what happened. the patriots know that the balls were checked in and underinflated at half time found to be out of compliance with nfl rules, but at this point they're saying we have no idea how that happened. >> all right. many people wondering as well. thank you for being with us for that report. chris pollown out of massachusetts. thank you. >>> let's bring in editor cindy boren. lots to cover here. >> oh, yeah. >> we have gotten word from general manager of the indianapolis colts, the team they played in the afc championship they're set to hold a news conference this afternoon. not clear if they're going

not even tom brady himself told eei radio he prefers underinflated footballs. when gronk scores, he spikes the ball, he deflates the ball. i like that. but i feel bad for the football because he puts everything he can into the spikes. brady referring to, obviously, rob gronkowski. and laughed off that the footballs in the championship game were underinflated. >> did you get the sense that you were able to grip the ball better than the colts last night? would you care to weigh in on that? >> i think i heard it all at this point. oh, god. that's the last of my worries -- yeah. i don't respond to stuff like this. >> among the many questions is this one. has it evolved into rule breaking deflation cheating. what the hell else has the new england patriots been up to lately? writing an entire book on tom brady. i said, i will believe any allegation against bill belichick, because of what we found out during spygate when it turned out the patriots were taping practices of other teams. they ended up paying a fine. this does not surprise me at all. >> well, this is -- i

confirming that the league has evidence that the patriots' footballs were underinflated during the first half of that win over the indianapolis colts. the nfl saying tonight, their investigation is ongoing gathering "video and other electronic information and physical evidence." and that they've conducted nearly 40 interviews, including patriots personnel. but it's unclear whether that includes patriots quarterback tom brady. >> i don't know what happened. >> reporter: who denied any involvement, but whose squeaky clean image has already taken a hit. >> i didn't believe tom brady. and there is not one equipment manager or ball boy in the nfl that would take it upon himself to deflate a football two psi, unless the starting quarterback knew about it. >> for the balls to be deflated, that doesn't happen unless the quarterback wants that to happen, i can assure you of that. >> reporter: this we know -- 11 of the 12 footballs were underinflated. so, if the patriots didn't do it, who did? what are people supposed to believe, that the footballs just magically deflated on their own? >> i don't

they use their own balls but underinflating balls are illegal because it makes it easier to grip and catch. >> they probably don't know how they became underdeflated but the fact that it's 11 out of 12 balls is disappointing. >> cheating is no stranger to the patriots bill belichicks was fined for recording another team's sideline signals during a game. >>> and what the president plans on doing today and a new form of cheating, what a study says that many spouses do that their husbands and wives don't know about. >>> stormtracker 6 live double scan showing you how snow is beginning to come in from the south and west and a change over to rain down south and another detailed view of what the snow is doing now. and another chance or maybe two of the white sufficient coming up. this is jim. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-day xarelto®, jim

we've been thinking about these 11 underinflated footballs, 11 out of 12.e puzzle was, one of the big pieces and i think a lot of people in indianapolis and look and matt can speak to this more closely, people in indianapolis and around the country was organizing was bill belichick in some hoodie at gillette stadium, either underinflating the footballs himself or telling people to do that. he cleared that up today. he said he had no knowledge of it. it comes down to if you believe bill belichick or not. i think the other piece of the puzzle will be solved around 4:00 eastern when tom brady gives his press conference. as these guys know luke and matt both know the quarterbacks around the league are puck ki about the air pressure of footballs. maybe that will clear that up. >> luke i'll ask you, do you believe bill belichick? >> i think i -- i'm not sure actually. i think he might know or might not know. i know it was a little fishy he's kind of deflecting the blame to come brady now. maybe he's covering his bases or actually didn't know. i don't know. we'll

which is an advantage since the underinflated pals are easier to catch and grip in bad weather, andday can's game was indeed played in bad weather. the underinflated footballs would only have been an advantage to new england since each team provides their own footballs. the footballs are inspected before the game by official and nbc is saying that at that time the footballs met regulations, but by the time they were inspected again at halftime they had reportedly had significantly less air as al allowed by the league rules. if the patriots were found to have let the air out deliberately the team could be fined $25,000 or docked future draft picks. a and the nfl is large areally reserving comment telling cnn that we are continuing the review and we will provide information as soon as possible but the seahawks are speaking out about the patriots and the quarterback tom brady. >> people somehow get a skewed view of tom brady that he is a clean utcut, and does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone, and we know him to be otherwise. >> and when i sat down with seahawks' pet

requires each team to provide 12 footballs of their own for the game even if the underinflation allegations, there isn't much after penalty. the patriots could be fined $25,000 and lose future draft picks. new england won sunday's game handedly 45-7. when did indianapolis figure this out? >> i don't know. but you think the league in a situation like that, they would be the ones to handle the footballs. let the officials handle the football. i think in a lot of sports, the referees handle the baseballs, hockey pucks. >> howard loves to tweet and he's been getting lots of reaction from viewers. >> twitter, facebook. i asked the snow is moving in, what are you seeing? wow, did i get bombarded. thank you so much gl. what do you think? >> a lot of saw moderate snow. doppler 9000 is showing this very nicely coming in west to east across the area. some areas we're seeing it stick to some of the roads, especially north and wrest where it's just coming down heavily enough and temperatures hovering around freezing. a lot of areas seeing wet streets. i want to point out i know it's snowing farther to